About Quickimport
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The module quickimport provides an improved importer for python. If you ever started a Python application from a lame file server (like a CIFS server) you know the problem of long startup times. The quickimport
importer uses the PEP-302 import hooks to reduce the number of failing stat system calls for each loaded module.
The code was developed as part of a commercial project and released as free
software under the GNU Lesser General Public License by science + computing ag. The software is copyrighted by science + computing ag.
Why did we decide to make Quickimport free software? We utilise Python and other open source products a lot. Therefore we think it is just fair
to release enhancements back to the public. Requirements
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* Python 2.7 (may work on earlier versions too)
(Sorry, currently no Python 3 support) Installation
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Get easy_install and do "easy_install quickimport".
Or get the latest source code from github.
git clone git://github.com/akruis/quickimport.git
Using Quickimport
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Invoke the function quickimport.install() early during application startup. You can use a .pth-file to do it.
Support
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There is currently no support available, but you can drop me a mail.
a [dot] kruis [at] science-computing [dot] de Plan
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No further plans currently
Changes
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Version 0.0.1
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Initial version, released by science + computing ag. This version is more or less a copy of a module from the flowGuide2 source code. The code works
for the specific requirements of flowGuide2, but has not been tested outside
of the flowGuide2 environment.